Panamanian Gianmatteo Rousseau, his plans in Spain 2024

Being signed or drafted, as you like to say, by a former world champion team Formula one, iand Spanish Fernando Alonso, It’s not something that happens every day, and if you’re Panamanian, it’s something more unprecedented. It’s an experience you live Gianmatteo Rousseu, who won races in Panama, United States, France and Italy.

“Spectacular, the best thing I’ve had in my life,” says 11-year-old pilot Gianmatteo Rousseau, who is counting the hours until he travels to Spain and achieves new goals as a pilot in the sport of rudder, tires and speed, chosen by the karting team Fernando Alonso, Pablo and Diego Rodríguez, aka DPK.

Gianmatteo to study uel Panama School, He admits that he knew nothing about karting and Formula 1 races, he came to the Kart Center in Panama, he says, out of curiosity, his grandmother brought him. Loredana CussNo, he was six years old and from that moment the adrenaline started, he felt identified with the track, he liked it and his interest in karting grew.

He was the champion in his first year of the Baby kart competition in 2019 in our country, in 2020 he did not compete due to the pandemic, but from 2022 until today the podium or the victory lap is one of his best allies.

In 2021, he was leading at the national competitions, but had to travel to United Statess due to obligations regarding competing in other tournaments and could not finish the domestic championship of Panama.

But, competing in NOW It gave him more experience because the level is higher. On North American soil, Panamanian Rousseau won the 2021 Skusa Protour.

Also in the same year, he reached the highest podium in the category X30 Mini Iame world final in France.

In 2022, in WSK Italian Cup Finaltakes the highest honors.

But this year 2023, in WSK Super Master and at ACI Italian Championship, in both competitions he crowned the country in the shape of a boot.

In the first week of January 2024, Gianmatteo Rousseau will have to join Fernando Alonsoto prepare for new challenges, including participation in the World Championship and the European Championship that he organizes FIA International Karting Commission in the category AlrightJ for children from 12 to 15 years old.

Rousseau He knows that not everything is a career, he claims that it is a big sacrifice to combine sports and studies, but for him it is very profitable and he thanks Panama school for support, online classes and preparation for the Apex Institute managed by Manuel Pereira who conducts his training.

Taking Spanish as a frame of reference Fernando Alonso and the missing Brazilian Ayrton Serna on an international level, in addition John Chocrony Jacobo Chocron at the national level, Panamanian Rousseayou claim that he is mentally and physically preparing for in 2024, win as many races as possible and be on the podium again, but now in the OKJ category, it will be a new experience.